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Hamid relocates to London for his career and finds love in the city, but his birth city is calling. Read by Sanjeev Baskhar.

Peripatetic author Hamid relocates to London to pursue his career and eventually finds love in the city with his wife and baby daughter. But Lahore, city of his birth, is calling...

These timely 'dispatches from Lahore, New York and London' encompassing memoir, art and politics, collect the best essays of the award-winning author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid.

Hamid makes a compelling case for recognising our common humanity while relishing our diversity, for resisting the artificial mono-identities of religion or nationality or race, and for always judging a country or nation by how it treats its minorities as 'Each individual human being is, after all, a minority of one'.

Read by Sanjeev Baskhar

Abridged by Eileen Horne

Producer: Clive Brill

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2014.

15 minutes

Credits

RoleContributor
AuthorMohsin Hamid
AbridgerEileen Horne
ProducerClive Brill
ReaderSanjeev Bhaskar

Broadcasts

  • Tue 2 Dec 201409:45
  • Wed 3 Dec 201400:30
  • Tue 3 Sep 201914:45
  • Wed 4 Sep 201902:45

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